Do you have any favourite quotes/sayings/clichés or maybe even a motto you live by?
Something that just makes you giggle or makes no sense when you really think about it.
"One swallow doesn't make a summer
You made your bed now you have to lay in it"
to die. humorous If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working: Our old TV had finally given up the ghost. UK to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed: All I'd cherished from early childhood had been denied me, so I simply gave up the ghost.
"big feet, big meat"
And for a man with large testicles and a small dick:
"All potatoes and no meat"
"Giving up the goat"
After I explained that she had the expression wrong we seemed to prefer the goat version to the correct expression and so used that.
So what is the correct expression?
to die. humorous If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working: Our old TV had finally given up the ghost. UK to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed: All I'd cherished from early childhood had been denied me, so I simply gave up the ghost.
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